MY SWEET LADY

"Gusto ko sana kasama ka Ma..." "I am sorry anak, I didnt get the message. Nakaalis ka na, di kita nasamahan. " Niki need to see her Dentist for a tooth extraction. She wanted me to accompany her but I failed to read between the lines or takot din ako sa Dentista. So she went to her Dentist with Ezel, her BF (Best Friend) O, Ezel you are heaven sent !!! You know Niki is the sweetest lady I 've ever known. She makes me feel I am important always. Ask me why ? Because she always needs me... she needs somebody to look at her face and check if there are foreign object there..." Ma, may dumi ba ako sa mukha ?" She needs me to massage her temple when she is having migraine..."Ma, hilot. During sleep time, she needs me to hold her hands until she falls to sleep..."Ma, hawak." And most of all, during cleaning time and doing chores at home..." Ma, wait lang." Hay... my sweet lady, you will forever be here im my heart !!!

MAMA'S BOY

It's Sunday afternoon, we heard three knocks from the door..."Ayan na anak mo !" my husband told me. I felt my heart beat faster. Nagkunwari akong nakapikit...and then he kissed me . Our son Nikon was home. We haven't seen him for one week. He is staying in a boarding house near his school in Morayta. All of us are excited, my husband, our daughter Niki and of course the mother. Everyone wanted to offer him something..."kuya, binili ka namin ng oreo at yung favorite mong biscuit" "'nak, 'nak nilutuan kita ng adobo. 'nak, anong sabi ng mga classmate mo sa laptop mo? " my husband said.  Ako, I just want to hug him and stare at him. "O, kumakain na ang anak mo, kwentuhan mo naman." kulit ni Papa niya sa akin. So I joined him and we talked while he was eating. "Musta ka naman Anak, di ka ba nahihirapan ? " "Nahihirapan but I have to endure the hardship...I wanted to cry. I missed him so much. Every night during sleeping time while I am on my rosary, I always asks our Gracious Father to please take care of him. Put him into HIS loving presence. Protect him always in all his undertakings. Masarap magkaroon ng mga anak. They are God's gift to us. Parents always hope and pray for their best welfare. I have two kids - Nikon and Niki...oh they are my precious gifts from GOD Almighty ! They called Nikon, Mama's boy...if Mama's boy means loving my son to the best of my ability, doing every effort I can to prove to him he is a precious child of GOD, teaching him to be GOD fearing and being at his side whenever and wherever he needs me then they are right...Nikon is a Mama's boy !!!

A BLESSED 2009 CHRISTMAS TO ALL !!!

THE OLD LADY AND HER THREE DOGS

"Can I have this leftover food?"  our  household help asked me.  "Of course you can!" I told her. Then she said "Yesterday while I was on my way home. I saw this old lady with her three  dogs on the sidewalk.  She has with her plastic bags , pillow and a cardboard for her bed."  According to her, she always sees this old lady but she never knew that this is where she lived ...one the side of the street.  The old lady approached her yesterday and asked her if she can asked for leftover foods.  "You know I pity my dogs so much for I can only provide them with small portions of what I have for the day.  It is not enough for the three of them .  Sometimes if  I do not have something to eat , they will also have none.  I do not want to see them starving."  Our  household help wondered and asked her if they are her pets.  "No! they are street dogs who keep on tagging along wherever I go.  They do not have a place to live.  I feed them and now they don't want to leave.  They are now my extended family." What an amazing deed!  More often we are bothered by our own needs without realizing that others  also have needs. Our prayers centered on what we want that we almost always take for granted the need of a brother, a sister or a neighbor.  Yes, they also have their needs, their trials and tribulations that we also have to pray for them.  The old lady can prioritize to ask for her food and then later think of her extended family of three dogs.  But she set aside her own need and asked food intended for the three dogs instead.  And I salute my household help too...because in her own little way , instead of throwing the leftover foods , she gathered them and exerted effort in bringing them to the old lady. A small act of kindness can really go a long way. The compassion of the old lady made our household help rekindle the softness of her heart and motivate her to also do a GODLY deed !!!

HEAVY LOADS

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"Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give  you rest.  Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest.  For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light," (Mathew 11:28-30) 
Each and everyone attending the mass can relate to this more so when the Priest told the whole parishioner that he himself is sometimes having this feeling of tiredness and boredom of his day to day concerns. I felt this voice inside me that I can also surrender my concerns to HIM...to our GRACIOUS FATHER.  I wanted to cry out loud...I can imagine myself sitting beside HIM...crying on HIS lap like a confused and frightened child...I wanted to pour out this heaviness in my heart...I wanted to just cry and feel HIS presence...HIS loving embrace...HIS infinite LOVE...What a feeling!!!  This is what I appreciate most in going to church...although there are hundreds of you there sitting and hearing the mass...you have this feeling that the GRACIOUS  FATHER is talking personally to you...you feel you are communing with HIM...its awesome , indescribable ...you have this overwhelming feeling of joy and contentment that HE is there in your heart, within you and that you are ready to face everything without fear because you are armed and braced with HIS words and HIS INFINITE LOVE!!!  " The mass has ended ,let us go in peace...in the name of THE FATHER, THE SON,THE HOLY SPIRIT. AMEN."  My daughter held my hand and together we walked out of the church. I am still with tears...the heavy loads are gone. What I have now are tears of joy...yes the problems and other concerns were still there but I believe I can face all of them because OUR GRACIOUS FATHER will never leave me !!! GOD LOVES ME !!!